Chapter 10
Chapter 10
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 10
Chapter Title: Ghost Girl's Mansion (5)
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Just as Jeong Do-jin adjusted the camera angle.
The battle with the boss monster commenced.
"Kieeeek!!"
Queen Elizabeth was a monster the size of a truck.
A queen spider that had spun its web high up in the dungeon!
Jeong Do-jin observed the interior from multiple angles.
'A spider web, huh. Those below are... egg sacs.'
Egg sacs large enough for a person to fit inside caught his eye.
'Focus solely on the boss, and the trash mobs respawn.'
Years of observing tier-1 guild battles.
That seasoned experience aided Jeong Do-jin's judgment.
'The opponent is the queen spider. Dozens of spiderlings hatching wouldn't be surprising.'
The Noble Spiders must have originated from those egg sacs.
"Zombies! You lot smash the spiderling egg sacs first!"
First, split into trash mob team and boss team.
Leave the zombies' combat to them.
Smashing stationary egg sacs would be simple enough.
'Even if the zombies mess up and the spiderlings hatch, as long as El Ayla takes down the boss, it's my win!'
Thwack! El Ayla kicked off a zombie.
Using it as a springboard to leap high into the air.
As declared earlier, the boss fight was one-on-one.
The zombies were mere insurance for fair play.
That was when the main dealer challenged the duel.
"Kie!!"
Queen Elizabeth, having seized the high ground, swung her arm.
Her blade-like foreleg sliced through the restraining webs.
Snip!
Rumble rumble-!
Rocks hanging from the ceiling rained down wildly.
'Trying to prevent the egg sacs from being destroyed.'
Jeong Do-jin instantly switched control.
The zombies scattered left and right, dodging the rock barrage.
Jeong Do-jin used the ghosts positioned below to assess the damage.
'Two got crushed. Not instant deaths, though. Press on.'
He checked the zombie squad and confirmed no issues.
Switched control back to El Ayla.
Returned his viewpoint to the deployed ghost.
All while keeping the broadcast feed locked on an optimal angle for viewers to follow the battle.
The camera work was so polished that even casual viewers sensed the stark difference from typical personal streamers.
Snap!
El Ayla completed her leap and landed on the spider web.
Queen Elizabeth stopped dropping rocks as well.
Click, click-!
Instead, she welcomed the challenger with threatening mandible snaps.
"Tch, enough with the Pokémon crap."
Jeong Do-jin brushed off the praise and jabs alike.
Analyzing enemy patterns was basic.
Hunters typically studied monster patterns before attempting clears.
'The problem is I know zilch about this guy's patterns!'
Jeong Do-jin knew two things.
The boss had superior attack and defense.
It was weak to magic or specific attributes.
No matter how much he researched, that was it.
Queen Elizabeth was a known monster, but this unpopular F-rank gate 'Ghost Girl's Mansion' had no guides worth finding.
'As a boss mob, it must have rich patterns.'
In the end, he'd have to learn through trial and error.
The silver lining? He wouldn't be tanking hits himself!
"Got it. I'll finish in 2."
Jeong Do-jin, who once checked Han River water temps, felt no fear of time limits.
El Ayla, fueled by his will, launched herself forward.
"Kieeeh!"
Swoosh-! Queen Elizabeth's counterattack flew in.
The strike of a universally acknowledged powerful boss monster!
And El Ayla was an assassin-type summon.
One hit, and she'd be forcibly unsummoned.
Her black hair whipping about, El Ayla toyed with the boss monster Queen Elizabeth this way and that.
A speed markedly faster than when fighting the Noble Spiders!
Thanks to the physical buff skill, Technique Dance.
"Looking good. Heating up nicely. My heart's racing!"
Slash slash-! The scimitar shredded Queen Elizabeth.
A display of leisurely toying with the foe!
Jeong Do-jin's face bloomed with a smile.
'Boosting technique, huh? Wondered what that meant at first.'
Technique Dance enhanced agility and dexterity.
For El Ayla, it amplified swordsmanship and physical techniques.
Sharper blade work and dances.
Her footwork on the webs was the same.
Precision in the chaotic fight, stepping only on vertical threads!
Impossible for a normal assassin.
But El Ayla could, with Technique Dance active.
Checking the chat, Jeong Do-jin broke into a slight cold sweat.
'...What? Thought verticals didn't stick?'
He was the one who'd instructed El Ayla to stick to verticals.
'Would've been stuck and done for if wrong.'
Or resummon...? Cooldown, right.
Close call.
Fortunately, viewers engrossed in El Ayla's fight missed his slip-up.
So Jeong Do-jin helped distract them further.
"See this butterfly?"
A skill infusing poison into the blade!
Purple butterflies rose from the scimitar.
Pro hunters instantly recognized the skill's value.
And viewers soon caught on.
"Kieeeh-!"
Sizzle-!
The boss, once only scratched, now staggered from poisoning.
El Ayla unleashing attacks. The boss staggering!
I breathed a deep sigh of relief at the battle unfolding as planned.
The boss fight I'd worried about was going according to strategy.
"Told you, right? Two minutes tops."
Of course, I didn't let it show when bantering.
No way I'd sleep tonight if they called me out for chickening over a miscalculated kill angle. All-nighters are the enemy of handsome men.
Blades don't pierce boss monsters.
Magic works, but no summons that use it.
So how to tackle it?
'Non-piercing attacks!'
Hence, Operation Queen Poison Assassination.
Obvious shift in thinking, really.
Can't keep swinging unpiercing swords forever.
But some viewers wondered.
Spiders are venomous bugs, right?
Most spiders indeed relied on venom.
So why was Queen Elizabeth vulnerable?
Knowledgeable viewers answered.
Entomologists joke that if human-sized spiders used their innate strength at 100%, they'd easily prey on lions or tigers.
Spider monsters made that joke reality.
Monsters definitely differed from Earth life.
Yet spider monsters' strength was proportionally immense, like real spiders.
Enough to hunt prey with raw power alone, sans venom.
'No wonder this dungeon's unpopular.'
Powerful spider mobs.
No valuable byproducts either.
Spider shell armor? Who'd want that.
Nobody wants bug shells, ffs.
That was why the gate flopped.
'Also why Queen Elizabeth skips venom glands and such gimmicks.'
This cavern queen used no poison.
Her strength alone crushed invaders.
Meanwhile, opposing views popped in chat—valid facts too.
Even top hunters with full healer raids blanched at venomous spider monsters.
Terror of tiny, hard-to-hit mobs dodging strikes, poisoning tanks!
Healers prevent death from poison?
Still risky as hell.
Venom spiders were landmines to hunters.
Spot 'em, fine. Miss 'em, disaster.
'Queen Elizabeth's a tank by comparison.'
Armor bouncing amateur attacks.
Firepower gifting death to challengers!
Unlike luck-dependent small venom spiders, Queen Elizabeth offered no quarter to unskilled hunters—a relentless pursuer.
Like a DPS-and-tank warrior hybrid!
As Hunter Hundred Ghosts Hall said, purely on strength, she outdid tier-1 guild prospects at her level—tougher, faster, stronger.
However.
"Kieeeek!!"
Super important fact, saying it twice.
Small, fast, venomous monsters.
Tough foes even raid parties dread.
They evade DPS endlessly, poison tanks in heavy armor, instill deathly fear in hunters—dungeon reapers.
For example.
Like a ghost dancer wielding a poisoned sword.
Assassins don't discriminate targets.
Dead and revived? Same job.
Human or spider, what's the difference.
Killing a queen always took but a dose of deadly venom.